The Brookhaven leader., 1887-07-07

The fourteenth anniversary of the birth
OF the Knights Of Honor was celebrated in
Louisville, KY, on the Soth, with an elab-
crate picnic.
Br the explosion Of the boiler Of thresh-
ing machine near Mascoutah, Ill; the other
iay one man wAs killed and another fatally
injured, and the thresher and two horses
burned TO death.
THE public debt statement for June
showed q decrease during the month of
SI8, $50, ,72517; decrease during the fiscal
year which ended June 30, flO9, III, ,6S8Ba.
MIDDLETON Il Co, proprietcrs Of the
Giant. chewing tobacco works In Louis
eille, KY, have made an assignment, with
500, 900 liabilities and assets nominally the
same.
LEVI BACON, financial clerk In the Inte-
rior Department, who died recently, is
found to be a defaulter to the amount OF
S2S, 600 The money went principally in
cashlng checks of the clerks under him,
and as their pay becomes due it will be ap-
propristed until the deficiency Is made
good
THREE children Of Mrs. August Belder
were burned to death recently at Pitts.
burgh, Pa, during the absence Of their
mother.
THE Harmony woolen mills at Cohoes, n.
Y, shut down on the lst, throwing 8, 800
operatives out Of employment The hands
were ordered to gratuitously scrub the
floCr which they refused 70 do, and this
caused the lockout.
F. w. BIPPER, of Chicago, the county
meat contractor who agreed to turn States
evidence in the Doodle cases, has disap-
peared. 1t was generally believed that he
had been taken on secret iunketing tour
by agents Of the prosecution IN order to
keep him away from the defendants.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) during
| the seven days ended June 80 numbered for
the United States, 155; for Canada, 26.
Total, ISL, compared with 1877 the previous
week, and for the corresponding week las'
year, 119
ALBERT TURNER, the murderer Of Jennie
Bowman, the domestic, at Louisville, KY,
last April, has been executed. His com.
panion, Patterson, appealed his trial and a
decision is now pending. The murder was
peculiarly brutal, robbery being the mo
tive. Both men were negroes.
TEE section Of growth last removed from
the throat Of the German Crown Prince
was sent to Prof. Virchow, of Berlin, for
examination. The latter has made thor
oughly satisfactory report, which has de
lighted the Emperor and the Prince
Two THOUSAND employees Of the Reading
pa iron works informed the manage
ment that they would not accept the reduc-
tion of 10 per cent made recently, and the
proprietors decided to close down all the
establishments, throwing all the men out
of work.
THE mortality in Now York on the 1st
was greater than on any other day this
year. One hundred and seventy persons
died, the greater number from cholera in
fantum.
THE duel between the Englishman Bar
ron and the Mexican Garron, of the City OF
Mexico, on account of Marshal Bazaine's
daughter ended in both being slightly
wounded. The bullets grazed the side OF
the Englishman and the temple Of the Mex.
ican.
THE consolidation of internal revenue dis
tricts in various sections was completed
on the 1st.
THE oil producers Of Ohio have agreed tc
stop production for nine months in order
to give the Standard Oil Company chance
to find market for their petroleum.
THE Illinois anti-poohng law went into ef
feet on the 1st and in consequence the pool
rooms in Chicago are all closed.
EASTERN electric light companies have
formed combination to manufacture their
own carbons and compete with the present
carbon pool.
HEAVY rains and serious floods are re
ported in many parts of Mexico.
APPEALS have been made from the prices
of wheat purchased by the grain committee
of the New Y York Produce Exchange to cover
recent shortages. The shorts claimed that
they were saddled with ten boat loads of
long wheat at prices largely in excess OF
the july option.